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Honey From The Rock Psalm 81:16 |
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SINS OF THE FATHERS This entry was posted on 03-05-2010 and is filed under STUDIES IN GENESIS. Do you ever get the idea that we don't learn from the mistakes of others? Call it "human nature" (or better yet "sin") but it seems like we just don't learn very well from the past. Such is the case with Isaac in Genesis 26. Just like his father had done (see Gen. 20), he journeys to a strange land and tries to pass off his wife as his sister. Rebekah was a beautiful woman and he feared that they would kill him in order to take her (Gen. 26:7). This story is all to familiar! King Abimelech is probably not the same King Abimelech as in Chapter 20. The Ryrie Study Bible says, "Abimelech is a dynastic title, such as pharaoh. Since this occurred 97 years later, the Abimelech mentioned here was probably not the same as the one mentioned in Chapter 20. But the story is much the same.
why Isaac didn't just trust God to protect him? After all, God appeared to him in verse 2 and said, "Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands..." (Gen. 26:3 NKJV). In spite of this divine assurance, Isaac comes up with a false story line for the Philistines. Where did he learn that? Had his father Abraham told him about what he had once done? Did he learn it from some of the servants? Was it a part of the family oral history? I don't know. All I know is that Isaac pulled the same stunt as did his illustrious father Abraham. Neither one of them chose to trust God for protection and deliverance in the same situation. But let us take a good close look at our own lives. Are there times we trust our own wits more than we do God? Do we ever stretch the truth or tell a lie to get by? Let us never forget the words that God spoke to Isaac ~ "I will be with you and bless you..." Surely that should be good enough for us! |
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